Posts Tagged ‘Colombia’

We, the 25 children and youth who won the first case in Latin America involving climate change and future generations, met with experts and civil society organizations in Colombia to ask our Congress, #LetsChangeTheGoal on deforestation that President Iván Duque proposed in the National Development Plan (NDP) 2018-2022.

One of Colombia’s greatest challenges as it relates to Venezuela’s migration crisis is the ethnic group who came from the neighboring country, having fled the crisis and asking to be recognized as binational citizens. They are some 300 people who decry the death of two of their children, the disappearances of some of their members, and the consistent threats they face.

In response to the presidential elections, a repeated phrase is heard among those crossing the Simon Bolivar bridge to take refuge in other countries across South America: “Only God can save Venezuela.”

César Rodríguez Garavito, Executive Director of Dejusticia, gives a crash course on these complex aspects of the Colombian transition to peace in this talk at the American University of Beirut sponsored by The Legal Agenda and Issam Fares Institute.

The report includes a comparative study of eight countries (Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, Guatemala, East Timor, Sierra Leone and Liberia) that used transitional justice to judge crimes by corporate actors during armed conflicts.

We comment the proposed draft law on the Regulation of Differential Criminal Treatment for individuals associated with the cultivation of illicit crops and women linked to small-scale drug trafficking.

From August 15th to the 22nd 16 young human rights advocates from the global South will take part of this mobile workshop. Meet our participants and facilitatros here. Meet our participants and facilitators here.

What was the Inspector General’s Office doing while the water supply was running out in Casanare? It wasn’t investigating the officers who let the “morichales” (wetlands) dry or who approved the licenses to exploit patroleum near water sources.